Okay, so you’ve decided to sell your business. If you’re always been a “hand’s on” type of business owner you might be tempted to sell it yourself, but do you really have the necessary skills to do so? Think about this. Selling a business, regardless of its size, is time-consuming and complicated, and really a full-time job.

If you sell your home, you’d expect to pay up to 1% of your property’s value on marketing.

Yet for a business sale – where there’s potentially even more money and maybe even your life’s work at stake – why don’t sellers normally invest an equivalent amount of time and budget painting an enticing picture for prospective buyers?

On the face of it, selling a business actually seems quite easy… you turn to Google and research some business brokers. You choose one you like and let them get on with it and that gives you time to keep running the business. But that’s not always the smartest, fastest and easiest way to sell…

Just because you’ve decided it’s the right time to sell and you’ve emotionally committed to selling…it doesn’t mean your business is ready for sale. Many business owners make the mistake of not understanding that being prepared to sell their business and their business being properly prepared for sale, are actually two totally different things…

While browsing Facebook, up pops an ad for an exciting lifestyle business. Well that’s got his attention. Could this be the opportunity he’s been looking for? Just one click and he’s on a very cool website promoting the sale of a great business which offers the chance to make a living doing what he loves. He can see an exciting future…